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[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

This might be a silly question, but I've always found this confusing. When do you use the modifiers то, та, те instead of этот, эта, эти? I was led to believe that both sets roughly mean "that" or "these".

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[ob-ivan.livejournal.com]

Hello here. I have a question 'bout classification of Russian letters.

Should we treat Й as a vowel or as a consonant?